The Pompidou Center in Paris is protected by the Sophos ES4000
appliance.
Sophos, a world leader in IT security and control, today
announced that the Pompidou Center in Paris, home to the French
national museum of modern art and a vast public library, has
selected the ES4000 Email
Security Appliance to protect its email gateway from malware
and spam.
Safeguarding more than 1000 users at the Pompidou, the Sophos
email security appliance was selected over a number of competitors
thanks to its ability to significantly reduce the amount of
security administration required at the institution. Since the
Sophos appliance was installed, Pompidou's IT administrators have
seen a considerable drop in the amount of unwanted email.
"The emails from our partners were getting lost in the flood of
spam - some inboxes were receiving more than 200 spams a day," said
Olivier Bielecki, CIO for the Pompidou Center. "With the ES4000 in
place, not only has spam virtually disappeared from our network,
but we haven't had any problems with genuine messages being
mistakenly blocked by the filter. Plus, thanks to Sophos support
and remote monitoring services looking after much of the
administration, we are free to focus on other tasks critical to
running the centre."
Featuring an intuitive web-based interface and automated
security updates, the enterprise-grade ES4000 protects against the
growing threat of viruses, Trojans, spyware, spam and policy abuse
in both inbound and outbound email traffic. The security appliance
also receives automated virus and spam protection updates every
five minutes and can process millions of email messages each day.
Its innovative 24-hour "heartbeat" remote monitoring, built-in
diagnostics and on-demand remote assistance offer additional
support to the email security manager, ensuring uptime whilst
greatly reducing administration.
"Large high-profile institutions are often easy targets for
spammers, so it is not surprising the Pompidou was desperate to
deal with the problem," said Christian
Pijoulat, Head of Sophos France. "They wanted a solution that
would free up much needed resources, so Sophos's ES4000 was a
perfect fit - designed to be installed and then left to do its
thing, the IT team can now focus their skills on other
priorities."
More than 100 million users in 150 countries rely on Sophos as the best protection against complex threats and data loss. Sophos is committed to providing security and data protection solutions that are simple to manage, deploy and use and that deliver the industry's lowest total cost of ownership. Sophos offers award-winning encryption, endpoint security, web, email, and network access control solutions backed by SophosLabs - a global network of threat intelligence centers. With more than two decades of experience, Sophos is regarded as a leader in security and data protection by top analyst firms and has received many industry awards.
Sophos is headquartered in Boston, US and Oxford, UK. More information is available at www.sophos.com.